Episode 0: Choice 1.3
"I didn't expect the final opponent to be you, who is known as the first wise general, so I guess today's battle will be very difficult. The general of the Black Silk Army frowned deeply and said with a distressed expression. He was born with a leopard's head and eyes, and his cheeks were full of thick, upturned beards, and he looked like a very rude man.
"Maybe we don't need to fight anymore. The general of the Red Tassel Army responded, only to see that he had a pair of narrow eyes, the corners of the eyes were slightly raised, the eyes were cold and sharp, revealing wisdom like a fox's eyes, and he had three simple mustaches, which were easily reminiscent of the way he looked when he squinted and thought about strategy while brushing his beard.
"You...... Why don't you fight? Why don't you fight? Do you think I'm not your opponent and want to humiliate me?" asked the black tassel with a round look in surprise, his already round and convex eyes almost fell out of his sockets, and his beard was raised even higher, like a burr on a hedgehog's body.
"The general misunderstood!" General Hongying shook his head and said, "I think you should understand very well that today is the main decisive battle between the two sides, no matter who wins and who loses in the end, the result can only be a defeat for both sides, the prosperity of our tribe is gone, and those opponents who were defeated by us in the past are bound to take advantage of the opportunity to attack, but I am afraid that the day of extinction will come soon." โ
"This ...... Alas...... You're right, but what does it matter if we fight or not?"
"At this moment, the brothers of the same clan in the other gates are fighting, and the blood is flowing like a river, and it is terrible to see, after all, why do we have a civil war? Why do we have to kill each other?"
"That's not because of the feud between the patriarch and his brother. โ
"Is it true that thousands of our brothers should kill each other just because of the conflict between their two brothers? Our tribe was founded by Our Lady, not the playthings of those two brothers!"
"Yes, if Our Lady was still here, we wouldn't have fought at all. โ
"That's true, so why do we fight?"
"Ahh......h Do you mean, we're going to defect?"
"No, we are not defecting, but to preserve the last bit of blood of our clan!"
"But what if we fled like this, and what if we were attacked by their brothers? โ
"Have you forgotten what I just said? In the event of a decisive battle, both sides will suffer heavy casualties and have no way to protect themselves, so what else can they do to crusade against the outside world?"
"This ...... I...... Let me think about it......" The Black Ribbon General scratched his head and frowned, looking distressed.
"If you want to fight, just go into the city, the patriarch's personal guard will welcome you, and the mechanisms inside are all carefully designed by me, but from this moment on, we are no longer some Red Tassel Army! If you want to fight, you should go with us, choose for yourself!" As soon as he finished speaking, the red tassel general reached out and broke the red tassel on the helmet from the root and threw it on the ground, and the soldiers behind him did the same, and in a blink of an eye, the red tassel army at the east gate disappeared and became a powerless army without a force, under the leadership of the first wise general, they bypassed the array of the black tassel army and marched to the northeast.
"Hey...... Why are you all leaving? Wait! Come back!" When the black tassel general was in a state of confusion at the moment, and could not make up his mind, the soldiers behind him could not bear it anymore, and when they heard the screams from the other city gates, they had already lost the will to fight, and they all defected and left with the Tassels, and because their helmets were not as slender and easy to break as those of the Red Tassels, they simply discarded the entire helmet.
"Alas...... It's better to die now than to die later, one more day to live is one day!" Seeing that the general situation had gone, the black tassel general had no choice but to take off his helmet and leave the battlefield with the large army.
The first wise general who was at the forefront looked back at the ruined city, sighed very regretfully, and said silently in his heart: "Patriarch, please take care, goodbye!"
Under the ground in the city, there is an underground secret passage, which can silently break away from the heavily surrounded city and go straight to the field, the height and width of the passage are more than two zhang, whether it is the common people, the combat army or the baggage grain and grass, can pass quickly and in large quantities, it is obviously a war preparation road.
At this time, the non-combatant members of the city, The old and weak women and children were urgently evacuated from this passage, and at the entrance of the passage there was a dignified and elegant woman maintaining order in the crowd, she had long black waist-length hair, and she was wearing a white robe with a hem that extended to the calf, flowing like a long skirt without restricting the movement of the body, a slender silver straight sword was tied around the left waist, and the lower body was a knight-like close-fitting trousers and boots, the wide round cuffs were like the petals of a morning glory, the jade hands that stretched out from it were as soft as stamens, and the left and right upper arms were tied with purple ribbonsใ
Under her crisp command, everyone entered the passage nervously and methodically, without the slightest hindrance, until the last woman with the child had also been smoothly evacuated, and she followed as the queen of the palace, however, she did not go far, an evil aura approached quickly from behind, and a disturbing premonition made her stop, and after instructing the team in front of her to continue, she turned around, and stroked the hilt of her sword with her right hand to prepare to volley.
After a while, with the sound of "gurgling" dirt being stirred, a small mound rose upwards from the ground in front of him, and quickly moved towards the white-robed woman, leaving a trajectory similar to that of a cultivated field.
"Bang!", the mound suddenly broke out of the ground less than a foot away from the white-robed woman, and a stone ovate taller than an adult rose from the ground, and then, a number of cracks appeared on its surface, which were instantly peeled off like a shattered eggshell, and an old wizard with an evil face appeared from inside, who was not kind at all: a gray robe, holding a skeletal staff made of human skulls in his left hand, waist-length hair, The slender eyebrows that fell to the cheeks and the long beard that reached the abdomen were all white, dull in color, rough and split in texture, and completely uncared for dirty, dark and heavy dark bags under the eyes supported a pair of dull and bloodshot eyes, as if caused by long-term insomnia.
"I've found it at last, you burrowing rats!" said the old wizard, looking up with disdain.
"Are you going to kill them all?" asked the white-robed woman rhetorically.
"If you cut the grass, you must remove the roots, otherwise there will be endless troubles!"
"Don't you let go of the old and weak women and children, they don't pose any threat to you!"
"This sentence is not convincing at all when it comes out of your mouth, I think back then, weren't you expelled from the village by the Five Holy Clans because you were judged to be a 'weak people', but now you are above ten thousand people under one person, what a scenery!"
"Isn't that the decision you made when you were the patriarch?"
"That's right, so today I'm going to correct the mistakes I made in the past and purge all the seeds of evil!"
"It's you who should be cleared!" the white-robed woman frowned slightly, clenched the hilt of her sword and prepared to attack, her slightly nervous expression suggesting that the opponent in front of her was not easy to deal with.
"Hmph, you want to stop me, you're too tender!" the old wizard sneered, then raised his staff and shook it twice in the air, then struck the ground hard, and the skulls on the head of the staff all began to open and close, bite, and let out a "click-la" At the same time, a blue-green fluorescent soul body burst out of its eye sockets, and immediately fell to the ground around the white-robed woman, and at every point where it landed, a ragged, flesh-and-skin, skeletal soldier with a rusty weapon surrounded her in a blink of an eye.
Realizing that these living dead things could not be injured by swords at all, the white-robed woman released the hilt of the sword with her right hand, and quickly recited the mantra, and then pressed one hand on the ground, and an emerald green air flow penetrated into the soil from her hand, and after a period of agitation, a number of wrist-like old tree roots suddenly grew on the ground, winding the skeleton soldiers like pythons, and when they were entangled with each other, she stood up straight, paused in her mouth and then silently recited a new mantra, and then stood on tiptoe, and turned around with this as the center of the circle, long hair, The hem and cuffs of the robe fluttered as they turned, as soft as a dance, but the skeleton soldiers standing around her who could not move were in no mood to appreciate it, because from the dancing of the white-robed woman emitted a kind of hot air current, causing the air in the circle to shake like ripples, and countless tiny sparks floated in it, as soon as they touched the roots of the tree, they immediately caught fire, and then burned all over the body, and the raging fire broke out in an instant, and the skeleton soldiers burned into black charcoal along with the roots of the tree.
"Hmph, good tactics!But that's the end of it!" the old wizard grinned, and took one of the skulls from the staff as if he were picking fruit, and then as soon as he saw the white-robed woman stop, he threw it hard, hitting her in the chest impartially, and at the moment of the impact, a soul appeared from the skull's eye socket and quickly burrowed into her body.
"Ahem......" The woman in the white robe covered her chest and began to cough dryly, and suddenly felt tightness in her chest and shortness of breath, and felt cold all over.
"Hahahaha, you won't live for a few days if you fall for my Soul Eater!" the old wizard laughed, "Tell me where you're going to flee to, and I'll give you the solution!"
"Ahem...... You...... Don't think!" the white-robed woman refused without the slightest hesitation, and at this time, her face gradually lost its bloodluster and turned pale.
"I don't know what to do, I don't think you've had enough of it!" the old wizard was furious, and raised his staff to release the spell again.
"Bang Bang Suddenly, a rhythmic sound came from behind the old wizard, it sounded like a four-legged running pace, and it was extremely fast, he quickly turned around and saw that a tall black figure had rushed in front of him, and was pushed to the ground by it, and a large mouth full of fangs and blood basin immediately gnawed at his head, and at the last moment, he grabbed the staff and pushed the beast's mouth, but its long, wolf-like jaws almost touched his nose, and sprayed on his face with a fierce breath, causing his beard and eyebrows to blow upใ
When you look closely, it is a unicorn with the body of a dragon-headed horse, covered with black scales, but the mane and tail are fiery red, and the big red eyes are like lit lanterns, burning in the eye sockets, and the flames are constantly oozing out.
"Get out of here!" the old wizard rebuked angrily.
"Bad old man, I'm going to let you go to hell now!" the black unicorn said in a rough and loud voice, and it turned to look at the white-robed woman, and continued, "What are you doing now?"
"Good...... Ahem...... Good thing you're ...... Ahem......" the white-robed woman said with difficulty as she coughed.
"Let's go!" the black unicorn continued to urge.
The white-robed woman said no more, turned around and continued to march deeper into the passage, but by this time she already felt weak and lightheaded, and had to hold on to the wall to move slowly.
Seeing that she was about to reach the end of the passage, the white-robed woman gritted her teeth and stepped up, when suddenly, a gust of wind blew from behind her, and a black figure swept by, blocking in front of her: black leather armor all over her body, purple tight belts, short neck-length hair, gloomy eyes, and tears at the corners of her eyes...... This is the lion rider who defeated Simon, and the female general of the Black Tassel Army who tracked down! There are still fresh blood stains on the aper blade on her hand, and it seems that many lives have been sent away by her along the way.
"Snow ......" The white-robed woman looked at the female general and called out her name.
"Sister, where are you going?" asked the female general called Snow, who stared at the white-robed woman with a fierce gaze and clenched the cone in her hand......